Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-12-07 19:21 GMT+01:00 Antoine Pitrou : >>> == Step 2: Bug Triage Permission == >>> >>> Once a contributor becomes active enough, a core developer can propose >>> to give the bug triage permission to the contributor. >> >> It sounds like

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
Wow, I didn't expect such warmly welcome for Julien Palard! I counted 6 positive votes (Nick, Zachary, Ethan, Mariatta, Ned, Carol), in addition to my implicit positive vote. I declare the vote done and wish welcome to our new core developer, Julien Palard! ✨ 🍰 🎉 ✨ I will now follow https://de

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-06 17:57 GMT+01:00 Mariatta Wijaya : > Please add Ivan to the Developer Log in Dev Guide, and he should subscribe > to python-committers mailing list :) I added Ivan to the Devguide: https://github.com/python/devguide/commit/f414589365e8d3808eaef3cf9f2b7370314133a1 Victor

Re: [python-committers] Statistics: growth of core dev number vs growth of the code size/complexity

2017-12-08 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 at 15:17 Victor Stinner wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wrote a quick & dirty parser to compute statistics on *new* CPython >> core developer per year using the following page as data: >> https://devguide.python.org/developers/

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-08 Thread Ivan Levkivskyi
Thank you, Victor! -- Ivan On 8 December 2017 at 16:47, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-12-06 17:57 GMT+01:00 Mariatta Wijaya : > > Please add Ivan to the Developer Log in Dev Guide, and he should > subscribe > > to python-committers mailing list :) > > I added Ivan to the Devguide: > https://gi

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-08 16:32 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > I declare the vote done and wish welcome to our new core developer, > Julien Palard! ✨ 🍰 🎉 ✨ I added Julien to the Devguide: https://github.com/python/devguide/commit/f414589365e8d3808eaef3cf9f2b7370314133a1 I will now see with him for the other ste

Re: [python-committers] Requirements to get the "bug triage" permission?

2017-12-08 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > (I tried to answer to all replies. Since I chose to reply in a single > email, so I chose to reply to own initial email.) > > Hi, > > It seems like I didn't express my ideas with the right words and so > misguided the discussion. I'm sorry a

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-08 14:19 GMT+01:00 Ezio Melotti : > In my opinion, the role of the mentor should boil down to: > 1) be a reference for the new core dev and be available in case > everything else fails (e.g. if no one else answers a question); > 2) be responsible for the mistakes the new core dev might make

Re: [python-committers] Requirements to get the "bug triage" permission?

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
2017-12-08 17:19 GMT+01:00 Ezio Melotti : >> Aha. Maybe we need some tooling, like statistics on contributions to the >> bug tracker, just to detect earlier active "bug triagers"? >> > > This can be done (e.g. the famous highscores page we have been talking about). My opinion on such statistics is

[python-committers] Licences for PyCharm and other JetBrains products

2017-12-08 Thread Vinay Sajip via python-committers
Recently I received 20 one-year licenses from JetBrains for the PyCharm IDE (Professional) and other JetBrains products (the licenses cover their "All Products Pack") for use in Python development. There are 11 licenses available - of the licenses I asked for last year, nine people took them up,

Re: [python-committers] Requirements to get the "bug triage" permission?

2017-12-08 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-12-08 17:19 GMT+01:00 Ezio Melotti : >>> Aha. Maybe we need some tooling, like statistics on contributions to the >>> bug tracker, just to detect earlier active "bug triagers"? >>> >> >> This can be done (e.g. the famous highscores page

Re: [python-committers] Statistics: growth of core dev number vs growth of the code size/complexity

2017-12-08 Thread Victor Stinner
Ezio: > Nowadays the situation is much better, Python is more stable and > mature, and what's left is more difficult, obscure, or controversial. > There are still new modules and features being added and ISTM that > most of the new core devs are working on those (e.g. > asyncio/typing/etc), but oth

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Terry Reedy
On 12/8/2017 11:20 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: 2017-12-08 14:19 GMT+01:00 Ezio Melotti : In my opinion, the role of the mentor should boil down to: 1) be a reference for the new core dev and be available in case everything else fails (e.g. if no one else answers a question); 2) be responsible for

[python-committers] Proposed schedule for next 3.4 and 3.5 releases - end of January / early February

2017-12-08 Thread Larry Hastings
Howdy howdy.  I know nobody's excited by the prospect of 3.4 and 3.5 releases--I mean, fer gosh sakes, neither of those versions even has f-strings!   But we're about due.  I prefer to release roughly every six months, and the current releases came out in early August. Here's my proposed sc

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 December 2017 at 13:14, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Dec 7, 2017, at 19:34, Christian Heimes wrote: >> >> Shiny! You'll get extra bonus points for not running as root. :) > > Don’t forget, there’s a bug tracker you can submit requests to. > >> I'm curious, what is the reason of compiling CPytho

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 8 December 2017 at 04:21, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 07/12/2017 à 19:01, Victor Stinner a écrit : >> >> IMHO the current blocker issue is that it is too hard to become a core >> developer. > > I don't think so. It should not be harder than it was in 2010, yet we > are promoting way less core